Excess Eagerness Can Cause
Jobless to Thwart Own Efforts

By

Joann Lublin Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 26, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

A jobless marketing manager recently touted his accomplishments to New York search firm Canny, Bowen.

He simultaneously sent the same cover letter and resume to more than 150 other executive recruiters -- and identified every recipient on his e-mail's distribution list. The shotgun approach helped chill the chances of Canny, Bowen proposing him...